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ST. LOUIS — Playoff baseball is like watching a loved one defuse a bomb. It is not something that you enjoy. It is something that you endure. Every pitch is a tick on a timer that is counting down to some unknown number, every swing a snip at a tangle…

TORONTO — After striking out the side in the seventh inning in his seemingly effortless fashion, whipping triple-digit fastballs with terrifying movement past hitters, freezing them with knee-buckling sliders and mixing in a few shake-your-head change-ups just because he could, Luis Castillo flashed a grin, removing his hat and offering…

Outfield prospect Brennen Davis has already homered in Arizona Fall League play this week.

Entering Friday's game, St. Louis was 93-0 when leading by two runs entering the ninth inning of a postseason contest.

CLEVELAND — Manager Kevin Cash and the Rays have been saying for weeks that they like the new postseason format Major League Baseball adopted this year because it doesn’t force the wild-card teams into a one-game showdown after a six-month, season-long battle.

The Seattle Mariners will meet the Toronto Blue Jays in the best-of-three AL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday from the Rogers Centre.

Cleveland and Tampa Bay used good pitching to produce an old school playoff game.

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Rick Hahn and Ken Williams — remember him? — get a free pass after disastrous White Sox season because Reinsdorf adores them.